{"id":25932,"date":"2016-03-29T18:09:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/141903346941"},"modified":"2017-01-27T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T06:41:46","slug":"lets-progress-firmly-in-krishna-consciousness-giriraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=25932","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s progress firmly in Krishna consciousness. \nGiriraj&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40144\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o4t681gDpr1sbj0vuo1_400.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o4t681gDpr1sbj0vuo1_400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o4t681gDpr1sbj0vuo1_400-187x187.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s progress firmly in Krishna consciousness. <br \/>\nGiriraj Das: I was hearing a lecture by HH Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami on the same topic and Maharaj explained  these three terms in a simpler way as well the relation between them.<br \/>\nSambandha : attraction, what draws the mind.<br \/>\nPrayojana : attachment.<br \/>\nBoth the above are moods, they create feelings but there is no activity.<br \/>\nAbhidheya : This is the actual expression of the above two.<br \/>\nSo we become attracted towards Krishna and then due to that attraction we become attached to Krishna and then we want to do something. The real meaning comes with service.<br \/>\nWe say mind has three functions: thinking, feeling and willing.<br \/>\nIf something is attractive we think about it,  if we are not attracted then we won\u2019t think about it. Feeling is when we get attached to it. Then..willing.. we actually do something about it. So we see Krishna, we become attracted to Krishna then we become attached to Krishna and then we finally want to serve Krishna.<br \/>\nSo it is in abhidheya that we understand the knowledge, contemplate on it and then practice that knowledge. It is application. How we are related to Krishna and what we want to achieve, what is it\u2019s purpose.<br \/>\nAbhidheya is the most important and critical part among the three and I am sharing some nectar, which I heard in last few months, on how we, as aspiring devotees, can traverse this wonderful and exciting journey,  making it more enriching and less painful (for us and those around us!)<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xaIBf3\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/xaIBf3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/cc79fce380695425bd4692613716c428\/tumblr_o4t681gDpr1sbj0vuo1_400.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s progress firmly in Krishna consciousness. <br \/>\nGiriraj Das: I was hearing a lecture by HH Bhakti Vidyapurna Swami on the same topic and Maharaj explained  these three terms in a simpler way as well the relation between them.<br \/>\nSambandha : attraction, what draws the mind.<br \/>\nPrayojana : attachment.<br \/>\nBoth the above are moods, they create feelings but there is no activity.<br \/>\nAbhidheya : This is the actual expression of the above two.<br \/>\nSo we become attracted towards Krishna and then due to that attraction we become attached to Krishna and then we want to do something. The real meaning comes with service.<br \/>\nWe say mind has three functions: thinking, feeling and willing.<br \/>\nIf something is attractive we think about it,  if we are not attracted then we won&rsquo;t think about it. Feeling is when we get attached to it. Then..willing.. we actually do something about it. So we see Krishna, we become attracted to Krishna then we become attached to Krishna and then we finally want to serve Krishna.<br \/>\nSo it is in abhidheya that we understand the knowledge, contemplate on it and then practice that knowledge. It is application. How we are related to Krishna and what we want to achieve, what is it&rsquo;s purpose.<br \/>\nAbhidheya is the most important and critical part among the three and I am sharing some nectar, which I heard in last few months, on how we, as aspiring devotees, can traverse this wonderful and exciting journey,  making it more enriching and less painful (for us and those around us!)<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xaIBf3\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/xaIBf3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40145,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions\/40145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}